Native American and Ethnographic Texts
The Peyote Cult (General): http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/pla/pey/pey01.htm

The Peyote Cult (John Rave’s Account): http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/pla/pey/pey02.htm

Of the girl who Married Mount Katahdin: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ne/al/al52.htm

How Glooskap Went to England and France: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ne/al/al30.htm

The Origin of Disease and Medicine: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/cher/sfoc/sfoc11.htm

 

Christopher Columbus
Journal of the First Voyage to America: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.asp

Narrative of the Third Voyage: http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/pf/pf37.htm

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924020420489/cu31924020420489_djvu.txt

The Requerimiento

Requerimento: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requerimiento

Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Don Antonio de Otermín
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/pueblo.htm

Edmund Nequatewa (Hopi Account)
How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi…: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/hopi/toah/toah10.htm

Mary Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm

William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24950/24950-h/24950-h.htm

Anne Bradstreet
Poems: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/bradstreet/bradstreet.html

and

https://archive.org/stream/poemsmrsannebra00hopkgoog/poemsmrsannebra00hopkgoog_djvu.txt

Letter: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Anne_Bradstreet_and_her_time.djvu/366&oldid=1964851

Thomas Morton
http://archive.org/stream/newenglishcanaan00mort/newenglishcanaan00mort_djvu.txt

Cotton Mather
Wonders of the Invisible World: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28513/28513-h/28513-h.htm

“Decennium Luctuosum,” from Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699: https://archive.org/stream/narrativesofindi00linc/narrativesofindi00linc_djvu.txt

Jonathan Edwards
Personal Narrative: http://mith.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=edwards_personalnarrative.xml

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34632/34632-h/34632-h.htm#V

Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/pierrepont/conversion/conversion.html

Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: https://archive.org/stream/notesonstateofvi01jeff/notesonstateofvi01jeff_djvu.txt

Letter to Nathaniel Burwell: https://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/women/virginia_gentlewomen.html

Thomas Paine
Common Sense: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/147/147-h/147-h.htm#thoughts

The Age of Reason: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3743/3743-h/3743-h.htm#link2HCH0001 and http://www.constitution.org/tp/agereason.txt

Toussaint L’Ouverture
Toussaint’s Constitution: http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Haitian_Constitution_of_1801_%28English%29&oldid=19995

Briton Hammon
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings…: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/hammon/hammon.html

Prince Hall
A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge: http://jesavoy.tripod.com/charge1.htm

Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/being-brought-africa-america

Judith Sargent Murray
Desultory Thoughts: http://pages.uoregon.edu/mjdennis/courses/history_456_murray1.htm

On the Equality of the Sexes: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/murray/equality/equality.html

Susanna Rowson
Charlotte Temple: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/171/171-h/171-h.htm

Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#link2H_4_0006
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2147/2147-h/2147-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister’s Black Veil: http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mbv.html

Young Goodman Brown: http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/ygb.html

Walt Whitman
Song of Myself: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/song.htm

Mark Twain
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1213/1213-h/1213-h.htm

The One Million Pound Banknote: http://archive.org/stream/l1000000banknote015668mbp/l1000000banknote015668mbp_djvu.txt

 

 

 

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